Hacker News: phito

New comment by phito in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable"

phito — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:03:35 +0000

OP doesn't seem to be on Mac

New comment by phito in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

phito — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:09:34 +0000

I think their current goal is to capture as much market as they can while they still have the best models, their only moat. Look at Anthropic, they are clearly trying to lock their users in their ecosystem by refusing to follow conventions (AGENT.md etc) and restricting their tools exclusively to their own services.

New comment by phito in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

phito — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:06:58 +0000

Less RAM usage doesn't equal better performances or faster software. It actually might mean the opposite, if you're not caching things in RAM.

New comment by phito in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

phito — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:32:27 +0000

While some of the ideas in this do resonate with me (or at least they're entertaining), it's unfortunate that's it's so obviously LLM generated. And some parts of it, like the INTJ exceptionalism, reek of LLM sycophancy, which then turned into to some kind of god complex...

New comment by phito in "Honda is killing its EVs"

phito — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:32:07 +0000

Yes they are, but it's still messing up nature. Was just to give some pushback to the venomous parent comment.

New comment by phito in "Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code"

phito — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:07:46 +0000

That's really bad... I don't care if people (probably LLM here) do these kind of mistakes in their own personal tooling. But when you're going to distribute it as some sort of library, it becomes unacceptable.

Write public libraries for solving issues of domains you are an expert in. If your library is LLM generated, it is most likely useless and full of errors that will waste other people's time and resources.

New comment by phito in "Honda is killing its EVs"

phito — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:36:02 +0000

In a lot of places, most of your electricity is generated by burning coal and gas.

New comment by phito in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

phito — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:06:29 +0000

I think curing GAD will mean changing your personality. There's always going to be a before/after you, that's the whole point. The important part is being able to reliably know what the "after you" will be so you can be sure that you want that change to happen.

New comment by phito in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

phito — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:48:25 +0000

It also needs to work at least 99% of the time if not more. Not easy to do this with indeterministic models.

New comment by phito in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

phito — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:13:34 +0000

Corruption

New comment by phito in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

phito — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:40:17 +0000

I keep reading this online but never encounter it in real life. People I work with and for like simple solutions that don't add complexity. It saves them time and money. I really wonder how is it that some people seem to encounter this toxic mentality so much that they assume it is universal. Is it a FAANG/US culture thing where everyone acts based on corrupted incentives?

New comment by phito in "Guilty Displeasures"

phito — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:01:15 +0000

Me too, everyone around me is into board games, video games, nerdy movies etc and they always assume I'm into them too. It always sucks when I reveal I don't like these things and you see the enthusiasm going off their faces :/

New comment by phito in "Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase"

phito — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:15:30 +0000

If you're paid by the hour, then does it really matter if you have to refactor stuff? If it takes a long time to do then it'll be more expensive for your employer.

Does the project manager get paid more by the hour to refactor a house than to build one?

New comment by phito in "An ode to houseplant programming (2025)"

phito — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:33:46 +0000

I've always had a passion for carnivorous plants and it was inevitable that I would end up doing tissue culture by keeping on digging deeper in the obsession.

The biggest ROI is fulfilling my childhood dream of having a ton of my favourites rare plants. Then I sell my extra ones on my webshop, but it doesn't make that much money as I am not focusing on expensive varieties, just the ones I like.

You can check out plants in jars on YouTube, or use a LLM to get into it. Some LLMs might not want to answer you because they think you're trying to do something dangerous... Claude has been flagging a lot of my questions.

New comment by phito in "An ode to houseplant programming (2025)"

phito — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:55:12 +0000

I love it. I do plant tissue culture as hobby and really see plants as the living systems that they are.

New comment by phito in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

phito — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:48:26 +0000

Exactly my experience too, to the point that I kinda ended up only using DDG for its bang features and never really do real searches with it... It's especially bad if I want local results for my country in my language.

New comment by phito in "How I use Obsidian (2023)"

phito — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:31:18 +0000

I feel like the only reason I use Obsidian is because of the "real time" markdown editor. If I could have this in Zed (not split view between source and render) I would probably not used Obsidian anymore.

New comment by phito in "How I use Obsidian (2023)"

phito — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:27:36 +0000

I've been using obsidian for about 3 years now and the only thing I've used are daily notes. I'm unsure where I should go from that.

New comment by phito in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

phito — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:40:04 +0000

Definitely this, my hobby is already filled with a ton of sloppy vibe coded apps that all do the same thing very badly with awful UI/UX. They all ask for a monthly subscription and, surprise, nobody uses them.

Meanwhile the hand crafted app that does the same thing gets put in the same bucket as the AI slop ones and is ignored.

New comment by phito in "ai;dr"

phito — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:31:07 +0000

I roll my eyes every time I see a coworker post a very a long message full of emojis, obviously generated by a LLM with 0 post editing. Even worse when it's for social communication such as welcoming a new member in the team. It just feels so fake and disingenuous, I might even say gross.

I don't understand how they can think it's a good idea, I instantly classify them as lazy and unauthentic. I'd rather get texts full of mistakes coming straight out of their head than this slop.